codalan

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by codalan 1y ago
It sucks Yubikey (or other hardware based auth) isn't more prevalent in the financial/banking world. It helps mitigate a lot of types of attacks: - No tokens to exfiltrate off a computer - Avoids keylogger style attacks - More dur
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by codalan 1y ago
In an ideal world, I'd just use Yubikeys for everything. The problem is that it's not universally supported (or only supports a limited number of keys), so now I have a hodgepodge of 2FA app or Yubikeys or, even worse, phone/
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by codalan 1y ago
It's only a security issue if you don't secure the cloud storage that's used for backups. Google Authenticator and some other 2FA apps allow the user to export their tokens to other apps so you don't need to redo TOTP on
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by codalan 1y ago
Just got off Authy. They've done everything to trap customers into their broken platform, primarily by never allowing the user to export their tokens, either to file, or to another MFA application. They also stopped supporting their de
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by codalan 2y ago
Your post is reminiscent of Rogaway's paper "The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work" https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1162.pdf
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by codalan 2y ago
Should this be under Show HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by codalan 2y ago
Kagi also seems to be built atop GCP. Not a great place to be if you want to compete against Google in the future.
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by codalan 2y ago
Going to be pretty funny when pranksters start putting airtags into places where they can't be found just to annoy people with unknown tracker alerts.
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by codalan 2y ago
The worst are the apps that will constantly bother you with an in-app popup to enable notifications, e.g. Goat. They make it come up randomly so you'll accidentally click on it. Or apps that you pay for (Spotify Premium, Tidal) that wi
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by codalan 2y ago
Already had my fill of Pixel 7 Pro problems. The screen failed to register any touches on it, twice. Once within warranty, once outside it. Best I could do is file a claim with my credit card company for a measly $300. For a $1200 phone. Ha
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by codalan 3y ago
Fun fact: So is the braking. There are no hydraulic backup systems in place.
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by codalan 3y ago
Is there a plan to eventually switch over to self-hosting? It seems like it might be bad to use a competitor for cloud services, although Kagi is small enough right now to not be on Google's radar...
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by codalan 3y ago
On my iPhone 13 Pro, calendar notifications will fail, and the alarm clock will fail to ring. No idea why. I need to reboot my iPhone once a week to fix this issue, and it's been this way since I bought this phone a few years ago. No i
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by codalan 3y ago
Sounds like you get it. It's unfortunate more people don't follow this mentality. And there's no incentive to stop this. When email inboxes turn into marketing dumpsters, it just drives users to WhatsApp/Discord/FB
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by codalan 3y ago
Sometimes I wonder if their mindset is, "Hey, even if only .05% engage w/ the marketing email, that's still > 0%!". Maybe their mindset should really be, "Hey, we're annoying 99.95% of our users who did not
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by codalan 3y ago
Yes
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by codalan 3y ago
It's not just scrollbars. It's the elimination of window borders. Aside from not being able to differentiate one window from another similarly colored window in the background, it's nearly impossible to click and hold on anyt
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by codalan 3y ago
I was a total convert to the Pixel 7 Pro until two weeks ago (check my comment history). Now my phone goes black when the slightest amount of pressure is applied to the center of the screen. Spent over an hour in support hell (and 6-8 hours
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by codalan 3y ago
Hooking up eGPUs to laptops. I don't really game, but I would like to have a separate eGPU to hook up to my laptop for ML stuff, rather than have a GPU dedicated to a single box.
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by codalan 3y ago
It's comparable to the Pixel 7 Pro (212g) or iPhone 14 Pro (206g), but it would be nice to see that number trend downwards. I had a Pixel 4a in the past, and that seemed like a good balance between size and weight.
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by codalan 3y ago
I couldn't finish the W11 Home Edition installation on my parent's computer without having them create an account, so I just installed Xubuntu on it instead, and probably avoided a lot of headaches. I'll probably revisit that
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by codalan 3y ago
A big reason for me to start learning Emacs again is due to the inevitable rot of VS Code. I'm even playing around with Neovim a bit. VS Code is like milk, but with an unknown expiration date. At some point, it will be spoiled by MSFT
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by codalan 3y ago
Google and Apple do things similar on their devices. I get nagged to backup my Android phone. It's a thinly-veiled upsell to their Google Drive product. There is no way to tell it to STOP ASKING ME. I have an alternative backup system
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by codalan 3y ago
The Dell XPS laptop series (and older Latitudes) seem to be a solid hardware platform for running various Linux distros. I'm running Mint and Arch on some XPSes and Latitudes and they have been very stable. I think part of the reason L
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by codalan 3y ago
Wouldn't a 200% export tax on high water items incentivize the same foreign investors to purchase more cattle operations in the US, ship their alfalfa to those ranches, then ship the meat abroad?
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by codalan 3y ago
All I really want is cardinal points on the map. So simple, and yet Google doesn't know how to do this. If I know the orientation of the map, then I can usually figure out what my starting direction is. Otherwise, I stuck with Google M
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by codalan 3y ago
Its value seems to be rapidly declining. I was on lemmy.world and lemmy.ca yesterday and was a little shocked at how many people migrated over there. I don't see how this looks good to any potential investors pre-IPO. The fact that lem
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by codalan 3y ago
How is power consumption on Sailfish?
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by codalan 3y ago
UML was (and still is) really useful when embarking on a greenfield design. Most people I've worked with know some basic UML notation, so when it comes to whiteboarding and refining the design, it makes sense to go with that. In terms
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by codalan 3y ago
I think Discord is a stopgap until mods figure out the next platform to move to (e.g. Lemmy). I view it as more of an addition to Reddit, rather than a replacement.

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